"If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it."

“Bella." He strocked my face anxiously. "I'm not going anywhere. I'll be right here as long as you need me." "Do you swear you won't leave me?" I whispered. I tried to control the gasping, at least. My ribs were throbbing. He put his hands on either side of my face and brought his face close to mine. His eyes were wide and serious. "I swear.”

“Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen ...”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.161, NYU Press

“I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.”

“A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin”

Source : William S. Burroughs, Dutch Schultz (1970). “The last words of Dutch Schultz”, Not Avail

“I'm a hypercompetitive individual.”

“I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.”

“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”

“Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there...when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay”

Source : "Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko: 'Better To Be A Dictator Than Gay'" by Lidia Kelly and Ben Harding, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.